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Endometriosis
"Many people believe that vitiligo is a rare disease," says National Institutes of Health-supported researcher John E. Harris, M...
Vitiligo
Working with NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, John Pandolfino, M.D., studies how to...
Heartburn
Sickle cell disease (SCD) specialists have performed bone marrow transplants in children since the 1990s. This procedure is the only...
Sickle Cell Disease
Russell E. Ware, M.D., Ph.D., had been researching sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. for about 10...
Sickle Cell Disease
Many people with sickle cell disease (SCD) are healthier and living longer thanks in part to research led and supported...
Sickle Cell Disease
Imagine driving and forgetting where you're going. Or feeling tremors in your hands when you try to pick up...
Lewy Body Dementia
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Anxiety
"Stuttering gets no respect as a disorder," says stuttering expert Dennis Drayna, Ph.D. "People think of it as...
Stuttering
"There's a great deal of misunderstanding about stuttering," says Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., a scientist emeritus with NIH’s...
Stuttering
Daniel Pine, M.D., studies how differences in our brains can affect our mental health. Through their work at the National...
Anxiety
For more than 25 years, scientists at NIH have studied human sleep habits. They've researched everything from how sleep affects...
Sleep Apnea
Angela Christiano, Ph.D., is not a typical researcher. Dr. Christiano studies a hair loss disease called alopecia areata. She...
Alopecia Areata
NIH's Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study wants to know what—if any—impact screen time, among many other factors, has...
Screen Time
Here's a surefire conversation starter: Tell a group of parents that you're studying whether too much screen time...
Screen Time
The measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine is one of the most effective around. It is 97% effective against the viruses when...
Measles
In 2000, measles had all but stopped spreading in the U.S. That's because vaccination rates were high enough to...
Measles
Researchers are looking to certain U.S. states, including Ohio and Pennsylvania, to better understand bipolar disorder—a mental illness that...
Bipolar Disorder
More than 1 million people in the U.S. live with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. While there is no...
Skin Cancer, Cancer
Penny A. Asbell, M.D., led a study to see if omega-3 fatty acid supplements really help dry eye. The...
Dry Eye
